The Sun. — London, England, 1838-02-02 00:00:00

PRIVATE BUSINESS OF PARLIA MENT, FROM THE COMMENCEMENT OF THE SESSION 1837.-1838 TO THE Ist FEBRUARY, 1838. SELECT COMMITTEE on all PETITIONS of PRI VATE BILLS, APPOINTED 22d Nov , 1837. Mr. SHAW LEFEVRE, Chairman. Aglionhy, 11. A Dunlop, J. ' :o*Conms Don Raines, E. ' Eastno:, Viscount Pahner It. Baring W. /1, Egerton, W.TJo seph Bell, Prase, Bell,Matthew Gordon, Hou. W. Phillips, G. Hewes, T. Greene, T. Vaulter, J. S. 13 nun , ton, T. ‘V, Hall, D. Sanford, E. A. tuner, Sir J. V. Handley, H. Stansfleld, W. 11. C Cavetirtish, HMI, G. Hodges, T. 1., Strutt, Edward Chalther, P. I,opc, flop. ..1, Stuart, W. Vi Tiers Clive, E. Jones, T. St le, Sir T. C. Campton, H. C. Johnstone, Hop e Verney, Sir X. Craig, V. Gibson Mildmay, P. St. J. Wodehouse, Hon. E. Clements, Lord O'Connell, M. J. Worsley, Lord Crawford, W. Wrightson, W. 13. PETITIONS AND BILLS FOR RAILWAYS. N EWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE AND CARLISLE RAILWAY, Peti tion for Bill, Dcc. 4, referred to the Select Committee on Petitions for Bills. CHELTENHAM AND GREAT WESTERN UNION RAILWAY, Petition for Bill, Dee. 15, referred. Petition of Colonel Cotter, complaining of non-compliance with Standing Orders, Jan. 29, referred. LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILWAY, Petition for Bill, Dec. 11, referred. LONDON AND CROYDON RAILWAY, No. 1, Petition for Bill, Dec. 22, referred. LONDON AND CROYDON RAILWAY, No. 2, Petition for Bill, Dec. 22, referred. BRANDLING JUNCTION RAILWAY, Petition for Bill, Jan. 16, referred. EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY, Petition for Bill, Jan. 28, referred. Petition of David Rowland against, for non compliance with Standing Orders, Jan. 29, referred. EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAILWAY, Petition for Bill, Jan. 28, PETITIONS AND BILLS CONNECTED WITH CANALS, HARBOURS, AND NAVIGATION. LONDONDERRY BRIDGE AND ACTS AMENDMENT, peti tion for Bill, Nov. 27 ; referred. THAMES IMPROVEMENT COMPANY AND DRAINAGE MANURE ASSOCIATION, petition for Bill, Dec. 4 ; re-. ferred. SALTASH FLOATING BRIDGE, petition for Bill, Dec. 14 ; referred. PAINGTON (Devon) HARBOUR Bill, read first time Dec. 22, second time Jan. 16 ; committed. RIBBLE NAVIGATION, petition for Bill, Jan. 16 ; referred ; petition of OWEN T. ALGER against, for non-compliance with standing orders ; referred. MONTGOMERYSHIRE WESTERN BRANCH CANAL, petition for Bill, Jan. 16 ; reforred. MANCHESTER, BOLTON, AND BURY CANAL, petition for Bill, Jan. 23 ; referred. TENBY IMPROVEMENT AND HARBOUR, petition for Bill, Jan. 23 ; referred. PETITIONS AND BILLS FOR ROADS AND AGRI CULTURAL IMPROVEMENTS. CAMBRIDGE AND NEWMARKET HEATH ROAD, petition for Bill Nov. 21 ; referred. Bill read a first time Dec. 8. WARMINSTER AND FROME ROAD, petition for Bill Nov. 21 ; referred. SOUTH HOLLAND DRAINAGE, petition for Bill Nov. 23 ; referred. RAMSAY AND CHATTERIS ROAD, petition for Bill, Nov. 24 ; referred. CAMBRIDGE AND ARRINGTON BRIDGE ROAD, petition for Bill Nov. 28 ; referred. TOWCESTER AND HARDINGSTON ROAD, petition for Bill Dec. 14 ; referred. WIBSEY AND HUDDERSFIELD ROAD, petition for Bill Dec. 21 ; referred. TORQUAY ROADS, petition for Bill Jan. 16 ; referred. Petition of Samuel Deady against, for non-compliance with Standing Orders. ELLESMERE Roans, petition for Bill Jan. 29; referred. DEE BRIDGE ROAD, petition for Bill Jan. 29 ; referred. PETITIONS AND BILLS FOR INCLOSURES. HORSELEY AND WOOTTEN (Staffordshire), Petition for Bill, Nov. 24, referred. CHESTERTON (Cambridgeshire), Petition for Bill, Nov. 28, referred. SWANESEY (Cambridgesbire),:Petition for Bill, N0v.28, referred. LINTON (Cambridgeshire), Petition for Bill, Nov. 28, referred. SUTTON (Cambridgeshire), Petition for Bill, Nov. 30, referred. WITCHAN (Cambridgeshire), Petition for Bill, Dec. 4, referred. QUADGLEY (Gloucestershire), Petition for Bill, Dec. 18, referred. BRATTON FLEMING (Devonshire), Bill read first time Dec. 21. OGLEY HEY (Staffordshire), Bill read a first time Jan. 16. HELSINGTON (Westmorland), Petition for Bill, Jan. 25, referred. P ALTIAN (Norfolk), Petition for Bill, Jan. 26, ref,Tred. MISCELLANEOUS PETITIONS AND BILLS. OAKHAM, &c., SMALL DEBTS, Bill read Ist time Dec. 11. FINSBURY SMALL DEBTS, Bill lead Ist time Dec. 23. ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCII SMALL DEBTS, Bill read Ist time Jan. 23. TENBY SMALL DEBTS, Petition for Bill Jan. 16, referred. BRECON MARKET, Bill read Ist time Jan. 26. EXMOUTH MARKET, Bill read Ist time Jan. 29. WALSALL MARKET, Petition for Bill Jan. 22, referred. PADDINGTON ESTATES, Petition for Bill Nov. 29, referred. MARGATE IMPROVEMENT, Petition for Bill Nov. 24, re- ferred. „LIE Cuuncir, Petition for Bill Dec. 7 , referred. LOWER BEEDING CHURCH, Petition for Bill Dec. 7, re ferred. MILTO N NEXT SITTINGBOURNE IMPROVEMENT (for paving lighting, cleansing, and watching) Bill read Ist time Dec. 18 ; 2d time Jan. 16. NECROPOLIS CEMETERY, Petition for Bill Dec. 14, re ferred. ANTI DRY-ROT COMPANY, Petition for Bill, Dec. 7, re ferred. It. AvEsEND PIER, Petition for Bill, Jan. 25, referred. HEREFO RD IMPROVEMENT, Petition for Bill, Jan. 22, re ferred. LEOMINSTER PAVING AND IMPROVING ACT AMEND MENT, Petition for Bill Jan. 23, referred. 'Vr t LFAST WATERW OR K S , Petition for Bill D ec . 21, r ef e rred. " L OTTING- HILL FOOTWAY, Petition for Bill Jan. 25, re ferred. 10, MBERS ELIGIBLE T FOR THE COU Ainsworth, P.—Bolton Al,ager, Captain—Surrey Alston Rowland—Hertfortbhire Arbuthnot, Gen.—Kincardineshire Atwood, W.—Grcenwich llari ng) F. Thornhill—Portsmouth Barnard E. G.—Greenwich Barre, G. S.—Cork Co. Rateson, Sir R.—ndnderry 1101 ) Matthew—S. Lo Nor o thumberland Rentinck, Lord W —Glasgow Bernal, Ralph—Rochester iliackett, C.—S. Northumberland Blackstone, W. S.—Wallingford Rolder°, Henry G.—Chippenham lling, W. —Bolton Il rthrabazon wick S, ir W Peter—Evesham , illiam—Maro Co. Bradshaw, James—Canterbury 14 anaston, T. \V.—Essex South B rowne, R. D..._Maj l o , ese. ,„'"Yrig. Geoe— antilupe V rg isco A u i n id t--Helston C arnae, Sir James R —Sandwich ''..arter J. B.—P rm ortsuh e aNendishAtlon. C.—East Sussex Con Hamlets C c o a n y ;n W.— , hanr Lord A.—Canterbury Hon. W. F.—Hertford Crawtord, W.—London t. ri Ps, Joseph—Cirencester .Jalryinple, Sir A.—Brighton j r: ar il George—East Sussex 4,eniso'n, W. J.—West Surrey Peniston, J.—Glasgow 4-''EYncourt, Right Hon. C. T.— ,rst abetb '"e Horn rsey S. H.—Newcastle-under. Lym e . • ' Psi - ''aelit B.—Maidstone Qtfiinalon Ivett, Edwntard—E —M xe d ter ttfor, Vlscount— Reigate tVrot, Hon. J. C.—Roxburglishire vans, W. Lacy_WeArninsto I'll('Wes Edw.—Huntingdonshire ~..ittalan; Lord —Arundel PO t ii ibl ion, Hon. R.—Limerick F° et, Sir W \V.—Exeter tb_rt, 07,trY, Sir William —Kent GoplbG. J. 11 .—Carnarvonshire i ir "!' s orn, Ri g h t Hon. H.—Cam 41Ie University V iscount—Herefordshirc 'irt,C,,"%.„ l) , Hon. E. H —St. Alb ans i lalcs,„ , seorg e —L, n d on Il ardimay y . lebone_ cosi e r, 'tight H on. SJ H.—Laura. Pa h , 1). W. —Sou t h war k BelliaMin—Lanibeth '&4 e) 'r. B.— Rochester '0 SIT ON COMMITTEES NTY OF KENT. !Hodges, T. L.—West Kent Hope, G. \V.—Weymouth 'Hope, Jamse—Linlithgowsgire Howick, Lord—N. Northumberland Hume, Joseph—Kilkenny Humphery, John—Southwark Hurst, R. H.—Horsham Jeplison, D. o.—Mallow Jones, T.—Londonderry Co. Kemble,H.—Fast Surrey Kerrison, Sir E.—Eye Knatchhull, Sir E.—East Kent Lascelles, non. W. S —Wakefield Law, Hon C. E.—Cambridge Univ. Leader, John T.—Westminster Lennox, Lord J. G.—West Sussex Lennox, Lord A.—Chichester Lewis, Wyndham—Maidstone Lushington, Dr.—Tower Ham'. Mahon, Viscount— Hertford Master, Colonel—Cirencester Malik, W. H.—Carlow Melgund, Viscount —Hytlie Miller, NVin. H.—Newcastle under- Lyme Monypenny, T. G.—Rye Muskett, George A.—St. Alban's Neeld, Joseph—Chippenham O'Brien, W. S.—Limerick Co. Ossulston, Lord—North Northum berland Palmer, George—Essex Pattison, James—London Peehell, Captain—Brighton Perceval, G. J.—West Surrey Phipps, Mark—Manchestor Pl u mptre, John r.—East Kent Price, Richard—New Radnor Ramsay, Lord--Haddingtonshire !reit% Sir J. Rae—Dover Rice, Edward lloyd —Dover Roche, E. 13.—Cork Co. itound, Charles Grey—Essex Round, John—Maldon Rushout, George Bowles—Evesham Sanderson, Richard—Colchester Smith, J. A.—Chichester Smith, Abel —Heft fords), ire Smyth, Sir G. H —Colchester Spencer, Hon F.—Midhurst urrey, Earl of—West Sussex Thomson, Right Hon. C. P. —Man. chester Thornhill, Geo.—Huntingdonshire Froubridge, Sir T. E.—Sandwich Tyrrell, Sir J. T.—North Essex Villiers, Viscount —Weymouth Whalley, Sir S.—Marylebone winnington, T. E.— Bewdley Wood, 'l'. J.—Middlesex ,Vood, Sir Matthew—London WOod, G. W —Kendal ----- = — te e , s : l e death o f the gallant Sir Amos Norcott having IN a l "ed a vaca ncy in the command of the southern district, rid , t'nitit ed s M a jor -General Sir William Macbean has been ap . t- the I.or_u command. 4t bid d Abinger has been making great improvements th e Roger Hall, near Dorking. his 'Lordship's youngest son,. * lier ° ll ll . Campbell Scarlett, has arrived from Rio Janeiro, Idae was an attache to the British Legation. „?,,tta°,r-General Clitherow, late of the Scots Fusilier -- I i th . nas been appointed second g eneral officer in command s 411 :11 f t a c r. ) e m " in Canada, next to Sir John Colborne. The ' Colds has apponted his son, Captain Clitherow, of tti lyv . str eam G ith fu _ ,_ . uards, to be his Aide-de. Camp, and embarks cti r tialifax. C ent a nd Countess Sebastiani entertaisied the Earl of Durham, Earl and Countess of Ta!ik . ervilie, 441 t i i „ 4, in e i, un. Edward Ellice, a n r, Mr. and Mrs. E. hllice, M. j t vetO ur i and a distinguished party at dinner on Wednes [ 0, at Manchester douse, LONDON : FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1338. In the House of Loans yesterday, upon Lord BROUGHAM presenting a petition from Mr. Roebuck, praying that their Lordships would hear him at their bar against the Canada Bill, some conversation on the subject arose, in the course of which a suggestion thrown out by the Earl of ABERDEEN, to postpone decision upon the matter till the morrow, was adopted. Lord BrtorcuAlt it will he seen presented several petitions, amongst which was one from Cupar, against any additional endowments of the Church to' Scotland. The Noble and Learned Lord afterwards corrected two misstatements made by a morning paper: " It had been stated that he bad repre sented the measure of 1833, for the abolition cf slavery, as being an entire failure. Now he never said any such thing as he had more than once before asserted." His observations on the Education Bill had also been misrepresented by the same paper. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, in reply to a question relative to the burning of the Caroline, American steamer, said that no official information upon the subject had been received at the Colonial-office. The House then adjourned. The House of COMMONS did not meet. By the arrival of th e American ship Roscoe at Liverpool yesterday, we have received New York papers of the Bth inst., from which copious interesting extracts will be found in our columns of to-day. These Journals do not confirm the report of the cap ture of Navy Island ; and, with one exception, they appear not to credit the rumour that the British at- tempted to effect a landing upon it previous to the 3d ult.—the date of the letter from Albany, in which the statement to that effect first appeared. It is with pleasure we observe the increased anxiety of the Government of the United States to preserve a strict neutrality as regards the civil commotions in the Canadas. A second proclamation from President VAN BUREN to the citizens of the States, charging them on their allegiance to the Constitution to take ❑o part in the civil war on the frontier, will be found elsewhere in our colum►►s, followed by a Message to the Senate and the House of Assembly, recommending the Legislature to examine whether the laws to en force neutrality are sufficiently stringent, and if not to increase their efficacy by severer enactments. Of the debate which followed the presentation of the Message in the Senate we have given a summary, to which we refer our readers, for a satisfactory proof of the good faith and friendly feeling of that Assembly towards Great Britain. The New York Inquirer of the Bth ult., commenting on the cordial reception which the PRESIDENT'S Message met with in Congress, thus expresses the opinions of nine-tenths of the American people upon the same subject The harmony which prevails in Congress in reference to the great topics involved in our relations with Great Britain, augurs well for the early and amicable adjustment of all the matters in issue. From the tenor of this debate, and from the letter of our Washington correspondent, under data of the sth inst., we are convinced that it is the sincere desire of the Administration and its supporters to preserve our neutralit♦ unimpaired; and though we cannot but regret that a more effi cient policy was not earlier adopted, we cannot withhold from the Government the credit to which it is entitled, for a wel come, though tardy interference. A more prompt adoption of the measures which the exigences of this affair long since demanded, might have prevented the unfortunate catastrophe at Schlosser ; and would have found the militia of the fron- tier disposed to render a more willing acquiescence, and a more earnest co-operation in the movements of the General Government. Nothing could better illustrate the momentous consequences of this question than the manner in which it has been met in Congress; and nothing could more pointedly rebuke the in considerate and reckless spirit which has sought to enlist our citizens in the Canadian insurrection. When Mr. Clay and Mr. Calhoun, Mr. Davis, and Mr. Benton are found on the floor of the Senate espousing the same cause, advocating the same principles, sustaining the same policy, we may be well assured that there can be little doubt among men of discretion and patriotism in which direction the honour and interests of the country point. It is to Mr. Calhoun, however, that we look as the exponent of the views of the Administration on this subject ; and when we see his declaration that of " all calamities which could befal the civilized world a war with Great Britain at this time would be most to be deplored," we can have no fears as to the policy and disposition of the Executive, and no doubt as to the eventual pacific adjustment of all matters in controversy. The same feeling, it will be observed from the debater, pre vails in the House of Representatives. There is in every branch of the Government an obvious and just solicitude to avoid any collision with Great Britain. This, it may be hoped, with the presence of an officer so vigilant, experienced, and capable as General Scott—armed, we presume, with an an authority adequate to any exigency—will insure tranquillity on the frontier, and prevent any further invasion of our neu tral relations, either by our own citizens or the subjects of Great Britain. Major-General Scott arrived in this city last night from Washington, on his wdy to the Niagara frontier, whero his exalted character and known firmness of purpose cannot fail to be attended with the happiest effects. We recognise in these sentiments an earnest and honest solicitude to preserve the most friendly rela tions with this country—relations which we trust the Governments of England and the United States will zealously seek to strengthen and consolidate, by acts of mutual forbearance and concess i on . I n the case of individual aggressions, the Executive of the State aggrieved should not be unmindful of the license enjoyed under a liberal Constitution, and therefore not pitch the point of reparation beyond the boundary pre scribed by the laws and the spirit of national institu tions. Neither in England nor America can the Govern. ment exercise that surveillance over the subject which exists in Prussia ;and therefore it would be both arbitrary and unjust to hold the Executive of either country equally responsible with that despotic Power for a violation of the law of nation s by one or more subjects in a civil capacity. We care not how many American citizens may have joined the rebels---w e care not what quantity of supplies have gone from Buffalo to Navy Island — the conduct of the PRESIDENT and the speeches de livered in Congress must convince every impartial person that the Executive is as strongly opposed as it can poss ibly he, to any, and every violation of the treaties between Great Britain and the States. Under such circumstances, and knowing that our Government would regard as a national misfortune a rupture with the United States, we may safely pre dict that the apprehension of a war will prove utteily unfounded. As for the rebels, the motnent they cease to be sup plied with provisions from the United States, they must evacuate Navy Island, provided they have not already been driven from it by the loyalists. The Island has no resources, either for sustenance or de fence, within it u lf ; and, therefo re , i t w ill b e impossi ble for IVPKENztE to keep it, after General SCOTT has cut off all intercourse between the insurgents and the citizens of the States. We expect, in a day or MAILS. A .rived. Due. i Arrived. 0 America.... ..... . 0 0 France.... ...... 0 0 Brazil 0 Buenos Ayres 0 0 Hamburg 0 0 Carthagena,....... 0 0 Hol!..nd 0 Dublin... ...... 0 0 Jamaica 1 Flanders Arrived. Due 0 Lisbon 0 Malta . ..... 0 Mexico 0 0 Ostend Sweden i. 1 NVaterf.rd 0 HIGH WATE?t AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW, .Morning 40 minutes after 8 I Evening l5 minutes after 9 ECCENTRIC SOCIETY, SUTHERLAND ARMS, MAY'S BUIDINGS. THE MEMBERS of the above Society are re quested to attend a GENERAL MEETING, which will be held on SATUVAY, the 10th of February, at 9 o'clock in the evening, for special and important purposes. R. LLOYD, Tr. and S. P. T. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 30 minutes past Three o' Clock. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1838. !wo, to hear of such a result, in the event of the garri son holding out till after the appearance of SCOTT, 01 the Buffalo frontier. We congratulate Ministers, and all who entertain the slightest solicitude for the el!-being of the inhabitants of Upper Canada, upon the; reeal Sir FRANCIS BOND HEAD from the Government of that Province. After his Nlessage of the 2Sth of December to the Provin cial Parliament—published in our columns of this day, from our second edition of yesterday-4t would be an insult not only to the dignity, but to the com mon sense of the nation, to continue even fur a day such an officer at the head of a Provincial Govern ment. Never wax there produced a stronger, fuller, or be:ter authenticated record of the in capacity of a civil Governor than this docu ment furnishes against the individual who framed and delivered it. Had we not the evidence of the official Gazelle for the fact, we would not believe that a person could be found out of Bedlam capable of acting, under similar circumstances as Sir F. B. HEAD states, he acted in the following passage : " As soon as this conspiracy became known to me, I deter mined that for the public good I would allow it to work its own cure; but as I felt convinced that that cure would never be admitted to be perfect if her Majesty's troops were required to take any part in the contest, I cheerfully approved of their leaving the province, in order that the p e opl e o f U pper Canada, in a state of uncontrolled independence, might be allowed another opportunity of unequivocally demonstrating whether they would support me or desert me in the determi nation I had evinced to maintain for them the British Con stitution inviolate.' Besides parting with the troops, I further resolved to place in the hands of the civil portion of the community all the muskets (about 4,000) which the Government had in store, and I accordingly delivered them over to the custody of the mayor, aldermen, and commonalty of the city of Toronto. " Without either soldiers or weapons to enforce . my cause, I allowed the leader of the intended insurrection a full opportunity to make his intended experiment—l freely al lowed him to write what he chose, say what he chose, and do what he chose ; I allowed him to assemble his deluded ad herents for the purpose of drill ; I even allowed them un opposed to assemble with loaded fire-arms, and in spite of t e remonstrances which, from almost every district in the Province, I received . from the peaceable porti on o f the com munity, I allowed him to niche deliberate preparations for revolt ; for I freely confess that I did underrate the degree of audacity and cruelty which these armed insulters of the law were prepared, as events have proved, to exhibit. It did not seem to me credible, that in the bos om o f t hi s peaceful country, where every one was enjoying the protection of equal laws and reaping the fruit of his labours almost un diminished by taxes, any number of persons could be found willing to assail the lives, plunder the property of their un offending fellow-subjects, and to attempt the destruction of a Gol ernment from which they had rece i ve d nothing but good. " The ultimate object of the co ns pi racy was veiled uner a mysterious secrecy, which I had no desire to penetrate; and, relying implicitly on the people, so little did I inquire into it, that I was actu. tually in bed and asleep when I was awakened by a messenger, who abruptly informed me that a numerous body of armed rebels had been congregated by their leader—that the murder of a veteran officer of distinction, a settler in the province, had already been committed, and that the assailants were within an hour's march of Toronto." We defy the world to produce an instance of lament able official incapacity equal to this. Upon his own showing, Sir FRANCIS HEAD —to prove to England of course that honest Sancho Panza was nothing to him as a Governor—actually winked at, and en couraged the rebellion in the Upper Province He deprived himself of men and arms—he al lowed the rebels to drill their troops with loaded muskets---and, as a climax to this official ex hibition of rashness and folly, he was caught sleeping in his bed at the instant his capital was invaded ! After such a confession no person can think of charging the rebels with crimes resulting from such a display of official presumption ; and if the Government were not dead to all sense of justice, it would not hesitate a moment in orderin; the recal of the silliest Knight that has figured in the regions of fact or fiction since the (lays of Don QuixoTTE—::had that object not been already accom plished. We have rcaion to believe that the Tories meditate a pitched battle against the Government on the Par liamentary Electors and Freemen Bill in Committee. As this Bill is extremely short we will copy it, in order that our readers may exactly understand its provisions, and afterwards the objects of the " amendments" that will be moved upon it:— A BILL To Regulate the Times of Payment of Rates and Taxes by Parliamentary Electors, and to abolish the Stamp Duty on the Admission of Freemen. [Note.—The words printed in Italics are proposed to be in. sserted in the Committee.] Whereas it is expedient to make further regulation as to the payment of rates and taxes by persons whose names have been once registered as voters in the election of Members of Par liament, and to abolish the stamp-duty payable on the admis sion of freemen in boroughs returning Members to Parlia ment. Be it enacted, by the Queen's most Excollent Ma jesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiri tual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That after the passing of this Act, no person whose name is or shall be upon the Register for the time being, as entitled to vote in the election of a Member or Members to serve in Parliament for any city, town, or borough in England, shall be required, in order to entitle him to have his name inserted in any list of such voters for that city, town or borough for the followi ng year, to have paid any Poor Rates or Asses se d T axes, except such as shall become payable from him previously to the Eleventh day of October in the preceding year. And be it enacted, That after the pas s i ng of this A c t, no Stamp Duty shall be chargeable on the admission of any Free man in any city, town, or borough in England, returning a Member or Members to serve in Parliament. The intention of the Tories is to mutilate, and if possible destroy, the first of those clauses. The se cond, which resists payments, which for party purposes they have generally had to make themselves, will, of course, receive no opposition from them—the " worthy and independent freemen" being in 99 cases out of every 100 their " very good friends," ready to vote " for a consideration," exactly as they might desire. The first clause, throwing back the payment of rates and taxes to the October preceding the registration, is one most loudly called for from all parts of the King dom. Hundreds of thousands of voters hare been dis franchised, without knowing why, by the operation of the present law. The onus being thrown upon the toter of ascertaining whether anything be owing or not, to both the municipal and parliamentary tax-gatherers, in the very short space between April and July, is most vexatious and oppressive. In a multitude of in stances either one or other of those taxes are not called for till after the day—possibly--we do not say probably —for the purpose of disfranchising the voter. The ex tension to October, and thereby making the disqualifying arrears nine months instead of three, will destroy this trickery, and prevent this injury. It will increase the number of electors probably one fifth, and get rid of a most annoying, vexatious, and mischievous machinery, which has hitherto formed one of those obstructions to the exercise of popular rights which the Tories —the would-be " guardians of the Reform Bill"—have ever maintained as being part and parcel of their " conser vative" policy. We press every Reformer to be at his post in the Committee on this Bill. We can imagine no more certain sign of apostacy or treachery than absence on a practical measure which will not allow of two opinions. The Member who neglects to attend is a a traitor to his cause, and a betrayer of his constituents , and we shall tell him so whenever the occasion arises. The " War of the Coats" is still carried on in Paris with unabated fury. Algiers and Spain, and even Canada, are forgotten amid the angry discussions about the colour and cut of a Deputy's coat. The Press has taken up the question as warmly as the Deputies ; and for this unwarrantable liberty several of the Journalists have been summoned by the law officers of the Crown, and called upon to answer for publishing the speeches of Members on this im portant question. Ministers themselves are as much divided on the subject as the Round heads and Cavaliers were about the dress of a priest in the days of Charles I. and no Covenanter in the reign of his son could look with more horror on a surplice, than the first orator in one of the first nations of civilised Europe now looks upon an embroidered coat. Civilised Europe laughed at the folly of the Russians, when nobles as well as boors were ready to break out into rebellion, because PETER the GREAT ordered them to clip their beards. But the follies of the Covenanters an d o f t h e s h aggy untamed Russians, were nothing to the follies of the nineteenth century with " the School. master abroad," and the march of intellect in full progress. For the last two or three vears the French derided the British House of Commons, because they gravely entertained the question whether they should stop all steam carriages, arrest all vessels in harbour, stop mails, close turnpike gates, and prevent pots boiling on a Sunday, at the instance of a crack brained Legislator, and they have now returned the compliment, by affording us merriment at their ex pence. What the end will be no one can tell, for the different sections in the Chamber at present are wide as the poles asunder. M. TitiErts will have a " black coat," as an emblem of the taking of the Bastile and the Louvre ; Count MOLE will have a modern " embroidered coat" as a fit appendage to the Court trappings of the CITIZEN KING. The ex-Member, BERRYER, and FITZJAMES will be satisfied with nothing short of the Court costume of the Grand Monarque ; and the few Radicals that lurk in the little left corner will pro bably (we cannot speak correctly, as the meetings are secret) be anxious for the restoration of the old Re publican dress worn by Members when the Sans Goa/Wks flourished. Perhaps the better plan, after all, will be to allow every one the coat of his own choice. That is the way we manage things in England. Sir ROBERT WILSON was always but toned up to the chin ; Colonel SIBTHORP is not re stricted in the longitude of his skirt ; BURDETT and COBBETT were allowed salt and pepper coats, and even more recent orators wear -rings with rubies red, or white gloves, without any interruption to the debate, or any lowering of the dignity of the Collective Wis dom. Of this, however, we may be certain, that if they cannot settle the question, LOUIS PHI LIPPE will settle it for them, as he has settled all great questions, in his own way. Though there may be a change of Ministry he will decide the cut of the coat at last, and then we shall hear as little of the " war of the coats " as we hear now of Sir ANDREW AGNEW. By the way, we have paid some attention to the petitions presented this Session, but we have not discovered one that-- makes any allusion to the Scotch Baronet, or to the subject which he kept so prominent when he was an Honourable Member. This shows what a loss the country may sustain by the loss of even one member. The Report of the Committee of the Westminster Reform Society, which appears in another column, will be read with lively interest by the friends of the good cause. To say nothing of the exertions of the Society in the elections which took place in Westminster last year, the latter of which terminated so triumphantly, the simple fact that it was the means of sustaining the votes of FOUR HUNDRED AND FORTY Reformers in the Revising Barristers' Court, which would otherwise have been lost, is at once a striking proof of the active zeal of this Society, and of the great benefit which such assocations, when conducted as they ought to be, are capable of producing. We cannot acquit the Re formers of supineness, when we compare the exertions which they have made in the Registry Courts with those of their adversaries. The Tories have felt that the Brest battle was to be fought in those Courts, and they have acted accordingly. This is one of the causes of their success at the last election. How dif ferent would have been the result had the same energy been displayed by Reformers, generally, which does so much honour to the members of the Westminster Re form Society. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE 0' CL 0 CI. The important news received this morning by the packet-ship Roscoe arrived at Liverpool, with papers of the B t h of January, containing the unfavourable news of three attacks being made on Navy Island by the British, who were repulsed with great loss, had, in the previous part of the morning some effect on the British Funds. a ln g d ai i i i: Consols, which closed at 91 4 for the Account, were done at 911, to , 914 for the Account. Exchequer Bills, 61 63 ; but soon after, the attack ßTa:kre se t o po n ec rk N ,C a 2e v on y 4t 4. 1 . 5 ,2 1 a lo n 7sl i: : being B,;id; i discredited, aßsr at zo icßrazilian, a,n,6754 ::: ,67 1; 54 0 Consols g es s d9 ll o l 6 t F l he ; si li: O or c ei K g s n T M Ei arl i c s et n as:;.:::a sa n N ish E o A , c c ti i i p e, CK l9 . to } ; Old Annuities Ditto South Sea to , k Portuguese, 2 7 1 28 ; -- if ala SL:e LC s . 264 2 per Cent. led. . 92 .ii % 1 4 Ditto Bonds 103 3;4 per Cent. .... .... - DutchrakittspißlinteToßld;:;lEv;and.a.Half, 521 53, 100304 Ncw Ditto — New 3% per Cent 9( )%1i % 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 New 5 per Cent... ... tn . - Excn. Bills, £l,!yv. 56 58 am. Annuitkai expire Rank Lona Ditto ,50,, --- T ln i i i ll l a s S p to:k y fo A r TAcocoNuEnt MSB pin. J an. 5, 1860.•••••••••••••• 15 1-11% 1 Ditto Small 3ie rClet::..‘:.'l's ...- 41'; 4.---'3'4/ )4 66 58 out Oct. 10 " 459 ...... Jan. 5 , 1 _,,, 350 , 14 11-16 Ditto Advertised — —pm Jan. 5, I"': - Bank Stock for Account — April ',. Ins'' .....• Jan. ,,, 1.7.)...-- , - Corsols for A cconnt i s a - w Es OF FL IiIEIGN FUNDS 0 ' CI. 1 ( 4 ) CV. Austrian Bonds Belgian Bond , - - Ditco Account ....... .. — Ditto Account _. p— Portuguese Bonds — Brazilian Br , nda ••• ..... "' ...... '..,-1 ‘? Ditto Account — Ditto Account Bonds — Ravi% Aires Ditto Account Ditto Account - -D.ttu, 3 per cent _ *7hillian Bonds ...... . Prussian Rends — Ditto A c count 4 C lian ttonds —. Ditto Account.- — Ditto Account ......._• i• ••• ••••• - - Ditt o M etallic Columb i an Bonds, b 42-1 • ...... Spanish Bonds — Dia.) Account I) iris Bonds ...... - Ditto Account ....• ......... .- -- Dltto Account Greek Bon;" .............. .• ....... French, 5 per cent- ........, --f. —c. Ditto Bonds, 1625 — ------ 4 per cent. —f. —c. • 'count Ditto At C yir cent.. ----- 3 per cent. 11eAscali 13.ralsi -f - '• ----- F.xct,..inge —f. ---,.. Ditto Account ... .......... - -- I Dutch, :tsi per cent 52Y,, 3 Ditto, 6 pzir ceat. Ditto Ac-:iount ... - Ditto, b per cent IOIX 2 ........ Ncapolitan.- ......... ._. . ______ — Ditto Account — PRICES' OF 15 11 A tiES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. ning Co. ( issued Per Share. Brazilian Imperial Mi t,, . ed at 5/. pin.) 20 Otto St. John del I __..., . ..0...i ....................... , nr flealdel Monte Nlinn .e. c . it , . t ___ . ............ 6:31. in,. (id. , _ Ditto Unregistered . . ... t .... .. .. ;;. ... '..r.e..4............... _... 16 ty United Mexican (issUed . i t n.) ................... 44, 2 !-a Eastern Counties Ratiw y ........... ......................... 3 1 % - % Great Western Itallway C 1 n y .................... 65 bON, 2 COlAirtlll ....... Brlghtoll ft:liiWay n . ..................... 5 7Ty 9 75i 6% I.- radon and Birmingha m R ail_y,ay Company 9O 164 /.ond an a nd Southampton Railway Company 5 O-t r London mad Southamp ton (New) Railway b 21 Midland Counties Railway Company 2O 15% 15% !..I inn Midl a nd Railway Company 25 2ii 1 4 General Steam Navigation Company ... l3 23X HALF-PAS7' ONE O'CLOCK Owing to the pacific disposition in Congress and on the part of the President of the United States towards the British Government, a re action has taken place in th e British Funds, Consols, which appeared very heavy in the early part of the m • orning at 911 for the Account, have since improved to 91 1) i'• Exchequer Bills, 56 58 ; India Bonds, 56 58 ; Bank Stock, 205 0 6 ; Indian Sto c k , 263 .6,11. In the Foreign Market very little doing at present. Spanish Active heavy :it 191, with Coupons • ,Portuguese, 271 171 181; Brazilian 75 ' 28; Three per Cents., . 27. . 1 improved ; Dutch Two and a Half, 5 0 1) 53 ; Mexican, _ .improved ; Columbian, I - Q I 25. THREE O'CLOCK. Censols for Use Aosposint, 9I;. FRENCH FUNDS -Nat.. JAN. 31. Five per Cents.. 109 f. 00c. 110 c. 100 f. Ike. Four and a Half ner Cents. 1415 f. 40c. Four per Cents., 14)1f. 75c. Three per Cents., 79f. 70c. 05e. Bank Actions, 2,61:01: Rente de Naples, ozq. 80. '7oc. Roman Five per Cents., 1411%%%. Spanish Actives, 25 19%%. Spanish Passives, 4%. Belgian Loan, 103%. Belgian Bank, 1,41 , 45 f. 1,510 f. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents. 18%10. 4 • Raytiati Loan, 39Cf. Three mouths, paper, 25c 321, 4 c ; DACHA Noe ow LONDON. Owe month, paper, 125 f. 45c. ; money, 25f. 45c money. 25f. 3Vc LAST PRICES. Fire per Cents. 10.0 .WC12 oc. Three per Cents. 70c. B ank Actions, 2:NOf. R omans 101%. Belgian ' Loan, 103%. Belgian Bank, 1,5101: Portuguese Three per Cents., Haytlan Loan, 390 f. Spanish Actives, IN. Spanish Passives, 4%. Lord Holland continues much indisposed with the gout, at his residence in South-street. Within the last 40 years rent rolls have advanced in Ireland from 200 to 300 per cent., while during the same pe riod the poverty of the cultivators of the soil has been increas in; in a similar proportion. A man named Robert Cook, aged 20, who was travelling on foot from London to Bath with others, seeking employment, being unable to walk longer, got into a waggon near Marlborough and fell asleep. When the waggon reached Devizes on Saturday morning he was found frozen to death, quite lota HOUSE OF LORDS.-(THIS DAY.) The Lord CHANCELLOR, LORD BROUGHAM, Viscount BERESFORD, Lord Sty and SELE, and the Bishop of HEREFORD, sat in the House of Lords to-day to hear Scotch appeals. GLENDONWYN V. GLENDON IVIN. The Lord CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this Scotch appeal which was argued yesterday. His Lords!4, after going over the whole of the facts of the case, which we gave yesterday, stated his opinion to be that the Court of Session were right in the decision they had come to. and as that judgment was unanimous, the appeal must be dismissed with costs. Lord BROUGHAM entirely concurred in the opinion just expressed by his Noble and Learned Friend; but he could not let the present oppor. tunity pass by without expressing his regret that the House had not been furnished with airy note of what pawed the Court below. Not only had their Lordships no account of the reason given upon which the judgment appealed from rested, but they w. re not informed what the question was that came before the Court below Nobody here could tell whether the question was either argued at the bar, or disposed of by the Bench bel tw, upon the words of the settlement, or upon the question whether the bond was heritable or not. He (Lord Brougham) must say, that they sat there, in a fch - eign country, to decide questions of law, with which, it must be supposed, they were not familiar, and which regulated the practice of conveyancers In Scot lam!, without a knowledge of •what had taken place .in the Courts there. If every facility were given to their Lordships, their difficulties were great in deciding intricate points of Scotch law ; but those difficulties were increased by the total absence of all in formation upon what had taken place in the Cour t below. Surely it was not too much to ask that their difficulties should not be increased by being kept in the dark of what had really taken place in Scotland. This was the second occasion upon which he had felt himself bound to ad vert to this subject, and he hoped it would be the last. The judgment of the Court below was then ordered to be affirmed with costs. Due. QUEEN'S BENCH -(THIS DAY.) (Before Lord DENMAN and a Common Jury.) FILLTENT V. ♦RMSTRONG. Mr. BVLES (in the absence of his leader, Mr. Creswell) stated the case. It was an action for a breach of contract, brought by the plaintiff, a French tutor, to receive a sum of money due to him as teacher of French and drawing at the defendant's school. The plaintiff had been engaged by Mr. Donaldson, a school-agent, at 60/. per annum, with board and lodging. At the expiration of six months the plaintiff went to France to visit his friends during the holidays, which were to termi nate on the 30th January, but he did not return till the Ist of February, two days afterwards. After remaining two days at the school, he was dismissed on the 3d February, on the ground that he had not returned in time. The case had been tried before, and a verdict was had for the defendant on the second plea, which was, that the defendant had been dismissed for not having returned at the proper time. The Court de cided that the ground of dismissal was insufficient, and granted a new trial. It would be for the jury now to say to what damages the plaintiff was fairly entitled. John S. Donaldson—l am a clerical and school agent, residing in Adam street, Adelphi. In Midsummer, 1835, thedefendant, the Rev. Mr. Armstrong, who kept a school at the time at Segrave-House, Cheltenham, applied to me for a French and drawing master, and I agreed with the plaintiff for 601. a year, with beard and lodging. I saw Mr. Fillient in Feb. 1836, after he had left his employment. He told me he had been two days late, and that Mr. Armstrong had written for a successor. He said something to the effect that Mr. Armstrong had told him he might remain for a day or two, and take his chance of a successor arriving. Three letters from the defendant to the plaintiff were put in and read ; two of them enclosed checks for the quarter's salary; the second intimating that vacation would terminate, and school re-open on the 30th of January. The third letter was a certificate of the good conduct and attention of the plaintiff to his duties, and was dated the 3rd of February. Mr. D. Por.Locx submitted that no proof had been given of a dis missal wrongfully by the defendant. Mr. BYLES contended that on the plea of the general issue he was en. titled to a verdict; and, after considerable discussion, Lord DENMAN thought there was a case to go to the Jury. Mr. D. Por.Locx having addressed the Jury for the defendant, Lord DENMAN, in summing up, expressed his regret that the case should have been again brought before them, as he was [aware that a great deal of money had been already expended upon it. It appeared to him that there was no proof of wrongful dismissal, therefore, on that plea, there must boa verdict for the defendant; but with respect to the de fendant's plea that he had made no contract with the plaintiff, that was manifestly untrue. It was no fault of the defendant, but arose from that unfortunate love of loading the record with untrue statements, which originated in gross inattention to the interests of clients, and unhappily prevailed to a great extent. The Jury found for the Plaintiff—Damages, 4/. COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.) (Before the Loan Curm, JUSTICE and a Common Jury.) DAVIS V. COMPTONS. This was an action for assault brought against the defendants, a publican and his two sons, living in Old street, at the corner of York street, for violently and without provocation, beating the plaintiff' and expelling him from their house. For the plaintiffit was stated by several witnesses, that Davis and two friends went into Compton's house, after twelve o'clock, on the 28th October last, and asked for drink, when the plaintiff was abused by the defendants, refused drink, beaten and expelled. On the other side, the defendant's witnesses directly contradicted the opposite evidence, and stated that Davis and his friends went to Comp. ton's for the avowed purpose of kicking up a row. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE, in the course of the defence, suggested that each party should withdraw a juror; but the advice of the Court was not acted upon. The cause having occupied the Court nearly five hours, the Jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff— Damages 40s. EXCHEQUER COURT.-(THIS DAY. THE ATTORNEY -GENERAL V. KIRK ♦ND ANOTHER. This was an information laid by her Majesty's Attorney-General against Messrs. Kirk and White, the eminent colour-makers, for penal. ties which it was alleged they had made themselves liable to by the frau. dulent removal of a quantity of cochineal. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (With whom was Mr. TANCRED and Mr. KAve) stated the case to the Jury. A quantity of cochineal in ten bags, each containing 201b5., was laying in bond in the London Docks. The defendants applied for leave to take it for the purpose of preparing it for a foreign market, by making it undergo some peculiar process known to them, whereby its value was much-enhanced. Leave was so given, and they took the valuable insects to their own premises. Some time after the officers of the Customs, on visiting the premises, found that the cochineal was indeed undergoing a process whereby its value would be enhanced—at all events one by which the defendants were likely to profit considerably—they found that nine of the bags were con tained in boxes mixed with some heavy white powder, which made the nine weigh as heavy as the whole ten, thereby evading the payment of the heavy duty upon one-tenth of the whole lot. He would prove these circumstances, and then he would fally rely upon the verdict of the Jury in favour of the Crown, in order that the fair trader might receive that protection from the law to which he was entitled. Sir W. FoLLErr, who, with Mr. JARVIS, was for the defendant, sub. mitted that upon the opening of the Solicitor-General, even if proved, there could be no case for the Jury. The defcndar.ts took out, upon leave from the Lords of the Treasury, their own goods for the purpose as stated by his Learned Friend. They were allowed a certain time for either the return of the article, or payment of the duty upon it. That time had not expired when the seizure took pEce. How, then, could the Jury infer any fraudulent intention upon such a state of facts. The LORD CIIIEF-BARON could not see how the information would be supported. He would, however allow the case to go on, as the facts might be strongly made out. Evidence was then led as to the fact of the removal of the goods and their seizure. 'When the officer came to state the nature ofthemixture, Sir W. FOLLETT again interrupted, and said he must beg to have his Lordship's opinion as to whether the evidence which was being given had any reference to the charge in the information, which was laid for a fraudulent removal of the goods. The SOLICITOR GENERAL contended that it had, inasmuch as he would by it show, that one-tenth of the cochineal would not pay duty, nor was it the intention of the parties to return it. Sir W. FoLtErr.—Our time had not expired. Lord ABINGER.—I confess my opinion is strong upon the point. How are we to infer, in the first place, that the defendants did not intend to return the goods? Again, why are we called upoa to infer that, sup. posing there was one-tenth of the cochineal left over after the process, the parties were going to use it for home consumption without payment of the duty. I will think it my duty to tell the Jury that ; for the safety of trade generally, they cannot draw so many and such remote in ferences. The Sou3rron-GENERAL, upon such a strong intimation of the opinion of the Court, would not press the matter any further. A verdict was accordingly taken for the defendants. Sir W. FoLLErr then said the defendants had not instructed him to make the objection, and he would not have done so, only that the evi dence would have exposed the mode ofpreparation pursued by his clients through which their cochineal had obtained great celebrity. He was quite prepared to have shewn that the charge was wholly unfounded, by former transactions and the mode of manufacture. Those were two other informations against the same defendants upon similar grounds, which were settled by the result of this one. CRIMINAL COURT_(THIS DAY). OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Justice VAUGHAN.) MURDER.—Richard Williams, a man of respectable appearance, was indicted for the wilful murder of his wife, Catherine Williams, on the 30th December, by throwing her do wn a fli g h t of stairs, and thus dis locating her neck.—Mr. Phillips defended. Ann Clark deposed that she lodged in the same house with the pri soner and his wife, in Waterloo-street, near Waterloo.bridge. On the 30th December deceased came into witness's room, apparently quite sober ; and shortly after they both went out together to the public house, where they had a quartern of gin in company with a man named James Turvey ; witness then went away, leaving deceased talking with Mir vey ; the deceased soon after joined witness, and they went home together; they then saw the prisoner, who went up to his own room with deceased, locked the door, and would not let the witness come in. In a short time prisoner and deceased wont out, and after a few minutes returned together; the prisoner had been drinking, but de ceased seemed to be quite sober. The deceased then said to prisoner, " Come along, my dear," and wished him to go to bed ; they went up stairs together; witness then heard the deceased cry, and calling pri soner a very bad name. Afterwards deceased went up stairs and tried to push open the door of her husband's bed-room. Witness heard a faint scream, and deceased fell down the stairs. Previous to the fall, witness heard the noise, as of a person getting out of bed and walking across the room in a hurry. Witness struck a light, and found deceased at the bottom of the stairs, her head downwards, and her fe t on .the third stair. There were twelve stairs in the flight. It was scarcely,a yard from the door to the head of the stairs. Cross-examined by Mr. PHlLLlPS—Deceased was in the habit of go ing out and drinking. Mary Jones, who lived in the same, house, corroborated this evidence. She further stated, that when deceased came in about one o'clock in the morning, she first with loud excLimations broke into her room, and said she would break open her husband's b—y door. Cross-examined by Mr. PHILLIPS-4 heard the door shut before I heard the scream. It was one or two minutes after the door shut before I heard the scream and the fall. Re-examined—Considering the state of the deceased, the short dis tance of the door from the head of the stairs, and the steepness of the stairs, it was very probable that the deceased might have fal!en down by accident. The Coroner's Jury brought it in accidental death, NEW COU.R John Harding was indictad for stealing 401. worth of rope, the pro. pert y of John Wingrove, The prosecution was instituted by the Royal Canal Company, with a v ew if possible to stop a species of offence whicj► has of late become very prevalent, and by which consider ble mischief has been done to their property. It appeals that fur some time past some evil.di..poi.d persori p have been in the habit of cutting away the cables which fas. ten o the vessels moored in the Royal Canal basin to the jetty rings. The annoyance had become so intolerable, that the Company at length 60 two ACtiVtt OMMi to watch t and they aticoceded in apprehending the V4i Prisoner, who hal in this manners Cisaft . Or_Oti,t9t?e Elizabeth, was there lying in th e b as i n.. •;C 'ir t; Mr. CLARKSON appeared for the ro64tntio , i and _kroiticed th policemen above referred to, who "p - '1#111.741, 5-0,4 cot the rope which confined the vess eltbifteeWilucli he ran away. They pursued and apprehended TOM". a t puplis i livmj The Jury without hesit a ti on found the\lr:tidltiet thtiltY. It haring keen stated to the Court that the pri,oner had been tried here b?fore fir offe.nce3 of a similar nature, and had bcca sent to the House of Correction. The COMMON SRGEINr observed, that It would be at least seven years tefore he should again honour them with his presence. GUILDHALL.-(THIS DAY.) Mr. Tibbetts, of No. 1, Budge.r;w, appeared to prefer the following c a ge against a Company calling themselves "The Metropolitan Coal Company," ca. ryirg on business at No. 108, Fleet street. It appeared from Mr. Tibbetts' statement, that, seeing an advertisement in the papers, offering coals at thirty shillings per tan, he was induced, on last Friday week, to send an order ibr a ton. They were yesterday delivered, and on having them weighed they were all deficient, from Subs, to I Ms, each sack ; and that subtle, quentiy, on I:aving the sacks weighed, some of them were tbund to weigh a; much as 1 &lbs., whare s 121br. is the weight allowed by law. Mr. liob!:.r, ji.n., on behalf of the Company, endeavoured to ac count for the sacks being overweight, by saying that the frost so har dened them, that it caul(' not be avoided. • Mr. Alderman LITAti said that tale would not do. Mr. Tibbetts said he did not wish to press for a heavy fine, his object was to expose the nefarious advertising system. The ALur•.RMAN said Mr. Tibbetts' object was most praitzworthy. Mr. ITo'iler said in all probability the short weight was occasioned by a weight dr•apping out of the scales. The Alumni/IN on referring to the Act of Parliament, found that a penalty not exceeding M. was attached for every sack deficient. Mr. Tibbetts hoped that a small fine only would be inflicted, and that the money should be laid out in coals, to be given to the poor of the ward in which he resided. The ALDMINIAN ordered the defendant to pay a fine of ss. on each sack, which amounted to Cis , and expressed his determination on any future occasion to inflict a very heavy penalty. BOW-STREET.--(THIS DAY.) William Dent, a coachman, was charged by John Lewis, 164, Strand, with creating a disturbance about his door. Two gentlemen who had lodged with the complainant were about to leave town for Paris, and having sent for a coach in order to convey them and their luggage to the Bull and Mouth, City, the prisoner with his coach were instantly in attendance ; ,but on his de. manding Is. Bd. fare, and 3s. 6d. for the conveyance of the luggage, he was dismissed, and another ordered to take his place. This circumstance so exasperated him that he demanded Is. for being called off the stand which was refused, and collected a mob, and conducted him self in the most riotous manner, so as to alarm the complainant and his family. • The prisoner was ordered to put in bail. BUSINESS OF TUE OFFICE.—Mr. MlNsuut.t. informed the Clerk is at tendance, that on all future occasions when he presided, he would re quire the evidence on the part of the defendant to be taken down, in writing, in the sense manner as for the complainant, as he considered it right to have a record of both sides of the question at issue preserved ora the books of the Office. OPERA BEJ,yc'EUM. The establishment of a comic opera at the Lyceum Theatre, and tha liberal support it has received, are events equally creditable to the spirit and foresight of the projectors, and the good taste of the public at large. Some of the chefs-d'ceuvres of operatic composition have been produced here; and although, in a comparativay small undertaking like this, the splendid materials of the Italian Opera have, of course, riot been at their command, the pieces have been played in a style so finished mil efficient, as to excite the attention and command the admiration of the musical world. Such may be remarked of several of the efforts of the present and preceding seasons, and such may be said of Figaro, recently produced. But, in reviving the o p era o f last night, the Cla u di o e Elisa of Mercadante, we do not think the managers entitled to any particular praise for their taste in the se lection, whatever they may be for the desire it seems to evince of sup plying their visitors and patrons with a succession of somethin g like novelty. Mercadante is one of the " thousand and one" imitators of the brilliant and versatile Rossini, and, in our cpinion, by no means the most successful one, although he may have produced some very agree able music, when heard in a detached shape. An opera, however, is IL very different affair, and requires powers to insure complete success far beyond what this composer appears to possess. We were wearied with the eternal repetition of the same musical phrases from the beginning of the opera to the end, and satiated with the perpetual recurrence of the same harmonies, and an instrumentation almost identical. Scarcely any part of the composition, either chorus, recitative, air, or scena, stands prominently distinguished, and the attempt to carry away a melody in the memory would bee vain effort. Added to this, the story, or whatever it may be called, is of the most meagre character it is possible to conceive, where mere nonentity is only relieved by utter absurdity; for instance, where a band of ruffians, shout thirty in number, dressed a la brigand, with sugar-loaf hats, and each armed with a formidable poignard, rush upon the stage, and after a "roaring chorus," carry off the infant children of a solitary, unprotected female, whom the son of a grandee has clandestinely married, and thus excited the anger of his father, the single incident on which this jejune vehicle for merely pretty music turns. The part of Elise, the heroine of the piece, was supported by Mademoiselle Scheroni, a young lady of very considerable ability, but by no means of powers sufficient to undertake with any chance of complete success the quantity of music incident to the cha racter. The weight seas too great for her, and although she displayed a gooddeal of feeling, she sank under it and failed in several of the concerted pieces, particularly when force and rapid articulation were required. Miss F. Wyndham, as Carlotta, her confidante, although encored in an introduced song, appeared to be out of her sphere in this opera; her tall person and robust appearance (ill contrasted with tbt petite Scheroni, who ought to have looked the most important personage of the two) had an effect bordering on the ridiculous. The Co' nt was well supported by Signor F. Lablache, as was Clandio by Catone ; and the well-known duett commencing " Claudio, Claudio," in the first act, was splendidly sung, and was perhaps the best thing in the opera. It was deservedly encored. The Marquis was played with a great deal of humour by Sanquirico, and we regretted that the part did not afford mc,re scot e for the display of his talents. The lover of Silva (Mademoiselle Varese, a mere cypher) aas personated by a gentleman whose name it it will be charity to pass over in silence. He more than one excited the risibi ity of the audience, a.,cl we hope, if the opera be played again, the management will find amongst the company some one whose de fects may not be quite so prominent. The chorusses were not so well sung as we expected to have heard them, but the accompaniment of the select but splendid orchestra, was beyond all praise. The house was filled by a most fashionable auditory, but although a strong disposi, tion to applaud wherever there was an excuse for it, was evinced, no. thing like enthusiasm was elicited by the imitative efforts of Merca dente, and upon the whole, the opera may be said to have been but coolly received. The following account of the " plot" of this opera is given in a Morning Contemporary, from whose favourable strictures, however, w e beg leave to differ:— " Count Bernaldo (F. Fablache), an awful tiranno, has discovered that his son Claudio (Catone) is clandestinely married to Elisa (Made. moiselle Scheroni), a damsel of humble station. This marriage is the more annoying, as he had destined his son for the daughter of the Mar.. quis Tricotarlo (Sanquirico), who pays him a visit. The Count strives to conceal all the domestic disagreeables, but the Marquis soon begins to suspect that all is not right. Claudio is closely confined, that he may not visit Elisa, and his amiable father sends a party of robbers to the young lady's cottage, who carry off her children. She naturally feels indignant at this transaction, flies to the Count's mansion, meets the Marquis, whom she takes for the tyrannical Count, and gives the asto nished old gentleman a pretty sharp lecture. The Count persuades the Marquis that she is deranged, and then tries to accommodate matters by generously offering Elisa another husband if she will renounce Claudio. The damsel again flies into a passion, and both reprehend each other in pretty unequivocal terms. At last the Count hits on the felicitous expedient of confining Elisa in a subterraneous dungeon when the Marquis, discovering the whole plot, takes the lady's part, and gives the Count a gentle hint that if he pursues this line of conduct, he may stand more chance of being executed himself than his own plans. This threat, united with a very convenient gleam of pity, touches the Cuunt, and he joins the hands of " Elise e Claudio." THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. As the Corn vessels do not yet attempt to get up to their moorings, there are no arrivals to report this week ; but as the river is getting more clear of ice, there is some probability that business may be re sumed next week. SMITHFIELD MARKET. There was a little advance to.day in Mutton and Beef, say 2d. per stone; other kinds of meat unaltered in value. At this season Fri day's market is principally valuable as an index to the coming Mon day's. The supply to-day was smaller; all was sold at the close of the market. PRICES PER STONE OF BLB. TO SINK TUE OFFALS. s. d. to s. d. s. el. to s. d. Interior Beasts ' 2 2 2 4 Interier Sheep 3 0 8 2 Second quality ditto 2 6 3 0 Second quality ditto 3 4 3 6 Frime large Oxen 3 4 3 8 Costrse-woolled ditto..... 310 4 0 Pri , ne Scots, &c. Large coarse Calves 4 8 5 4 Large Hogs 3 2 4 8 rrlme small ditto 5 3 6 0 Small Porkers 4lO 5 4 3 , ickling Calves ,eack...l7 .. 25 0 Quarter old Pig teach) 12 u 20 U SUPPLY AT MARKET. Lasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pi gs. 303,1 2,559 119 516 NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL MARKETS. • At per stone, by the Carcass. s d. to s d. I. d. to s 4. 'eef, inferior 2lO 3 0 Mutton, inferior ......... 3 4 3 tl - middling ...... - middlin --g 'I El 3 prime large ----, prime 3 10 4 410 0 Veal - prime small..„ 3 2 310 Perk, large ' 1 4 4 42 5 8 ---,small ....... .., 46 5 4 PROVISION MARKET. There is scarcely iniy thing doing publicly in this market. The stocks generally are not heavy. Prices are precisely the same as they were this day week. . TALLOW AND OIL MARKET, P. Y. C. is 495. 3d. to 495. 6d. to.day, and but little sold. Common Fish Oils are now 1/. per ton lower than they were this day week. COLONIAL MARKETS. There is very great quiet to-day in these departments in common with all others just now. Of Groeeries we have to.day but one public sale, and that is 1,100 bags White Bengal Sugar, which sold with ani mation when we left at fully former prices, and with a tendency up_ wards. The quotations are 655. to 675. 6d., for White, and 50s. to 645. f,r Brown and Yellow. In British Plantation Sugar there is a fair bus:ress doing, and prices are not only firm, but looking up. Of Refined Goods there is none in the market. Coffee of every description c ntinues firm, and where it varies advances in value. To-day there are no public sales. Tea continua in good demand, and is firm. Spices of all kinds are buoyant rather, but not to-day publicly in the Market. In Bum, we believe, that owing to the short stock, there has not been a single who'esale transaction during the past week, Indigo, as brought in lots, continues to sell at the bought In prices. Rice is firm ; but Cocoa is Languid. The imports are slender, and while there is a good feeling generally to purchase for consumption. For export there is nothing doing. PUBLIC SALE or COTTON TO-DAY.—This morning, at twelve o'clock, at the London Commercial Sale Rooms, Miricing.laire, the public sales of Cotton of different kinds, amounting to nearly twenty thousand bales, according to the advertisements, commenced. Although there has not been any public sale of this article for a long time, still the atteadance r f the trade was not numerous, and very little Interest wits excited, owing to internal navigation being still obstructed put up was sold . Large by the Ice. If parties were to purchase, they would have to hold the ebmmodity until navigatio n i s opene.l—they therefore wait. The conse.. quence of this was, that very lit t l e of t h e c otton quantities were bought in, and th e diminutive proportion which f ound Nyers went at about former Priem The sale will not b e ov e r until late, but from the disposition of holders to prop up prices by buying in, no variation front the previous market prices, of any moment, Was expected. LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET. market Trans and aeaons to a t a ole dvance rable extent wer e effeetod Cotton at this day's , a slight reazesA On thOth classes under Bd. per lb, best; the superior qualities reVitAtu unultered in value. The sales, •Mbranham, 01 ;70 Surata altogether amoun t to 3 4 '41 uke. 150 4i 5; 30 Bahia ; c,',i; L'OPUan, 9 ; Antericau, 6 fii ;30 Per.. nam, 9A. LSOiICL A NTI-SPOTTISWOODE SUBSCRIPTION Subscriptions to defeat the purpose of the Spottiswoode Confederacy continue to be received at— Messrs. COCKS and BIDDULPHS, 43, Charing- cress. Messrs. BOUVERIE and Co., 11, Haymarket. Messrs. PRESCOTT, GROTE and Co., 62, Threadneedlc-street. Messrs. LADBROKE, KINGSCOTE and Co., Bank-buildings. J. E. HOVENDEN, Chairman of Com mittee of Managment. British Coffee-house, Jan, 29. ~..f , ...,„.. .1 \ -,: .-, ,;" i ~,,,,7, 7, ...., 4;/ , ,c.,- ,- ,„ p , •''''Z l : , 1 4 ~..44 I ~,e, Ip, .-;..... .q:-- * ' ' ~ . , - 7 - - . 74 _: ‘ ,4,..'''',.Z.4" 4 ( 717 4 4 - Ei '' Ae lax+ WITH WHICH I, THE TRUE SUN " IS NOW INCORPORATED.